Re: Numbers for Bombers & Fighters (v. OT, but Somebody Here Probably Knows)
- From: Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:31:54 -0500
Brian Thorn wrote:
That's a garbled version. It was LBJ (10 years before Ford became
President) and he confused SR-71 for RS-71. But the "S" doesn't fit,
no matter which order it's in.
It was reconnaissance/strike; the idea was the SR-71s would overfly the Soviet Union directly after the missiles and bombers hit it, looking for any targets that escaped the initial strike.
This is a really fascinating brief history of the "Archangel" program, more so since it used to be classified:
http://www.blackbirds.net/sr71/oxcart/successortou2.html
Read between the lines on that, and it says the CIA A-12 was very successful, and the Air Force's SR-71 a lot less so - due to sticking a second crewmember into the camera bay.
Pat
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